For Ambrose it is all very simple. He is inspired by nature. So the creator is an integral part of everyday life. It all makes eminently good sense for a follower of Francis.

Ambrose's landscape also sees beauty in the simplest buildings - places that to many might be ugly. The artist's warmly colourful 'Signal Box' through the poets words becomes a noble symbol of change

The warm colours, texture and shapes, that are the elements of Ambrose's pictures, might on the surface seem to create a naive, almost cuddley world. But on second and subsequent viewings there is cause for thought. 'Construction of Sewerage Plant at Mutton Island Galway' shows a landscape utterly changed, an alien place that looks as if it is about to choke. Ambrose prays and meditates in paint.